User:TheDaveRoss/poems
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- Cinquain;
- poetic form
- which, disyllabically,
- gets increasingly longer, then
- ends short.
- When an epigram one's composin',
- brevity is key,
- of stanzas: one should be chosen,
- and of lines: one more than three.
- The clerihew, as you can see,
- is shorter than it ought to be,
- with just four lines I'm s'posed to tell,
- what it's all about...oh well.
- haiku, a poem
- five beats, then seven, then five
- ends as it began.
- A tricky form, the lai,
- as it changes as it goes by,
- you see.
- Stanzas change form, and I,
- get confused when e'er it I try,
- to read.
- If a limerick one is choosin'
- It'd be best if one's also boosin'
- Though it's funny, I fear,
- One may end up in tears,
- The one has one's booze for excusin'!
- Palindrome:
- the form poetic.
- mirrors itself inside.
- If only one sees one,
- one sees one only if
- inside itself mirrors.
- Poetic form;
- the palindrome.
